Northfaceninja watched in horror as a Comcast employee repeatedly smashed his Comcast van into a car driven by a senior citizen before barking: “Get the fuck down from your car so I can kick your ass.” The angry employee quickly abandoned his ass-kicking plan once he noticed onlookers jotting down his license plate number.
Northfaceninja writes:
On Sept. 5, 2008 at around 8:00 PM, I was driving on John Daly Blvd in Daly City, CA when I witnessed something totally inappropriate by a Comcast driver in a Comcast truck: Roadrage.
As i was driving slowly amidst the traffic, i noticed a commotion with other fellow drivers telling a Comcast driver to stop harassing and leave an older driver alone. The Comcast driver was clearly shouting expletives and telling the older driver to get the ‘Fuck’ down from his car so he can ‘kick his ass’. Along with other witnesses, i saw the comcast driver tapping or ‘slow bumping’ the older man’s car in front of him whilst yelling profanity. Concerned motorists started to jot down the license plate number and called for assistance. At this time, the Comcast driver weaved in out of traffic and proceeded to the nearby freeway.
I do not know the circumstances leading to this incident. Maybe the older driver was a bad driver or perhaps the Comcast driver had a rough day, but one thing i know is that this ‘roadrage’ driver needs to be trained in handling these types of situations. We’ve all encountered idiot drivers and cetainly had our bad days, but as a society, we can not let our anger be the judge and executioner of what we perceive as wrongdoings.
If Comcast is reading this, I realize that not all of your drivers are like this, but this particular bad apple in your company definitely needs a reprimand and anger management training. If he can’t handle situations like this properly, then maybe he shouldn’t be driving around in your company vehicles.
BTW, the Comcast Pickup Truck’s license plate number is 6295791 (California Plate).
The lesson of the story is this: Never piss off a Comcast driver or he might ask you to come down from your vehicle to receive some ass kicking…FREE OF CHARGE!
Clearly this individual act of asshattery isn’t sanctioned by Comcast, but the company with official policies for changing water jugs and making coffee almost certainly has a policy guiding employee conduct, one that explains that employees wearing Comcast uniforms or driving Comcast vans are Comcast representatives.
In this instance, the employee was representing Comcast, because doesn’t Comcast really want to kick all of our asses, financially, spiritually, and every other imaginable way? We really wouldn’t mind if Comcast’s marketing, or say, official responses to the FCC, matched its employee’s misdirected moxie.
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Why on earth would anyone just walk off a pavement into a road? I don’t care if there’s big signs up saying I have right of way and all cars are covered in 5 meters of magic fairy bubbles with happy bunnies riding on top of them, I still wouldn’t step off into a road like that. That’s suicide.
Isn’t all of this talk about elderly drivers being horrible nothing more than blaming the victim? Roz, please pretend to do your job.
@agnamus: Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah people are talking about something I disagree with someone help!!!!
@Norislolz: No, not waaahhhhhhh. I actually don’t care about old people, and all other things being equal, I’d rather have them off the road much sooner than the status quo. My point was more to emphasize that not only is the new comsumerist comment code overly heavy handed and stifling, but also it’s irregularly enforced. The comments code might as well read, “If we don’t personally agree with you, or if enough people complain, we’ll censor.”
@agnamus: Well that point- the irregular enforcement and “if we disagree with you then we’ll act” policy- I’ll completely agree with.
How do you not yell at senior citizen drivers.
That’s a really nice way to get shot in a concealed carry state!
I’m rethinking my previous poll position. Countrywide never threatened to kick my ass for bad driving.
How does one ‘come down’ from a car? Was grandpa driving a vehicle with those huge clown tires on it, sticking way up above the traffic?
Clearly this individual act of asshattery isn’t sanctioned by Comcast
I disagree wholeheartedly, and not just about Comcast.
If companies in general didn’t approve of such behaviour by their employees, they would have more stringent hiring policies and prevent it in the first place, rather than “take it seriously” after it happens. Such people only get hired because the company wanted to save a few bucks instead of having a better screening process.
The screening of minimum wage employees by most companies makes the Republicans look thorough in their choice of VPs (e.g. Palin, Cheney, Quayle).
when I was 17 I was t boned by some old fart in a lincoln continental who didn’t feel he needed to stop for a red light., needless to say my hundai didn’t put up much of a fight, afterwards the old guy bailed. grr. old people should not drive. if you need a walker to move around, then maybe its time to use the public transit or invest it a rascle. go comcast dude, show that old freak whats what!
Why on earth would Consumerist comment that the “employee repeatedly smashed his Comcast van into a car” when the ACTUAL STORY posted just a paragraph below says “i saw the comcast driver tapping or ‘slow bumping’”?
Not that slow bumping is acceptable, or that has anything to do with yelling profanities at another driver but when The Consumerist decides it’s okay to liven up the only reported version of the incident they do a disservice to themselves and anyone who tries to report incidents to them.
Report the facts please, leave the “as inspired by” stories to Law & Order.
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To address the actual content of the article and not the comments that followed from it, road rage is never acceptable, whether you are on the job or not.
I’m sure comcast can track down this driver and appropriately re-train and/or discipline him as they see fit.
Comcast does suck, but come on…this is another classic set of Gawker comments by a bunch of experts who know that [subset x] is the worst type of driver, except for [subset y], followed by an irrelevant non sequitur that no one cares about, all based on a story that probably isn’t true in the first place.
Keep up the good work!
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